areste Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Well, most of the traders know that price changes with change in time. Hence, time is an important factor. There are several periods of time based on which analytical skills of traders can be applied in order to achieve maximum profits. There are many Time Frames, presented in most platforms offered by today`s brokers, so that the client is completely satisfied. The most popular forex trading platform is MT4 which offers the Time Frames below: M1 | M5 | M15 | M30 | H1 | H4 | D1 | WK1 | MN1 Out of the periods mentioned above, M1 and M5 are mostly used by scalpers who want to always be active with some trade floating their equity. The M15 and M30 are preferred by short term traders who intend to make about 50-100 pips from each trade. The H1 and H4 are used by medium term traders who would project profits in 100-500 pips per trade. The D1, WK1 and MN1 are massive time frames mostly popular among big financial institutions and even some hedge funds and of course some long term traders out of a general audience. I usually trade the M15 and M30 looking at H4 chart for the bigger trend. Feel free to comment your thoughts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
learningfx Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Re: What is the best TimeFrame to trade? Hi, The best timeframe to trade depend on individual trader. For myself, I only can trade using the D1 timeframe as it suit my lifestyle. Find one that suit yourself & lifestyle & habit. Trading is all about 'winning' ourselves & becoming better, not against the market or anyone. Just my 2nd cents of comment. \m/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbara1713006084 Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Re: What is the best TimeFrame to trade? Hi, The best timeframe to trade depend on individual trader. For myself, I only can trade using the D1 timeframe as it suit my lifestyle. Find one that suit yourself & lifestyle & habit. Trading is all about 'winning' ourselves & becoming better, not against the market or anyone. Just my 2nd cents of comment. \m/ I like what learningfx said about it .. there is only one more thing I think determines your best TF, and that is actually your STRATEGY :D .. I can have my preferences about this and that TF, but when I find the strategy that intrigues me I adjust very fast to it any TF :"> Sorry if my English is :P Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcguy007 Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Re: What is the best TimeFrame to trade? I use 4hr and daily charts, but it is all up to the trader and the time that works for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgrade Posted March 20, 2010 Report Share Posted March 20, 2010 Re: What is the best TimeFrame to trade? the best timeframe for ema I use is 4H, and it working great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kishisaki Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: What is the best TimeFrame to trade? i use Daily for overall market direction and i use 15min for main analysis of the market and i use 3min to execute trades and as a trigger. i used 30min and 60min before but found them pretty much close to 15min for intra-day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harisrib Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 Re: What is the best TimeFrame to trade? It depends on your trading style. I use 1h and 15m combination. 1h chart is used for knowing the direction of the trend and 15 to buy on retracements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahmi Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Re: What is the best TimeFrame to trade? In my opinion it's better to trade with all time frames chart You can see a big view of price through bigger time frame. Through smaller time frame you can entry your trade with a smaller dherrawdown. They complete each other Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trduraikamaraj Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Re: What is the best TimeFrame to trade? analyse every thing as per your style & view in longer time frames, after that before pulling trigger watch lower time frames which is the right time to fire . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladv Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Re: What is the best TimeFrame to trade? The best timeframe to trade is every trader's personal choice ;) ;I trade mostly 5, 15 and 30 minutes charts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksorrow Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Re: What is the best TimeFrame to trade? For me H4 TF works as i can see some profits and price is more clear on that TF. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
for-ex Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 Depending on your trading style whether you swing,scalp or whatsoever ..im scalping on TF M5 with H1 combination.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trduraikamaraj Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 a detatiled answer for this topic was found please check it, please do not use other forum link .. cop pas here--K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizonline Posted May 2, 2010 Report Share Posted May 2, 2010 I use M30 to get small pips and H1 for long trade and big pips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyverd Posted May 4, 2010 Report Share Posted May 4, 2010 Depending with your margin; if you start with only less then $1000 better use small TimeFrame so your StopLoss is small too, example if you only have only $20 with leverage 1:1000 (Micro); and your system have StopLoss 30 Pips & you trade with GBP/USD better you use m1 TimeFrame so the StopLoss 30 Pips is hard to get hit, BUT if your margin si more then $1 Million, better use TimeFrame Daily & use Leverage max 1:10 (Ideal 1:2). This is just My Opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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